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6 Bosnian Croat Officials Are Taken Into Custody

Six wartime Bosnian Croat officials flew to the Netherlands and were taken into custody to face charges at The Hague war crimes tribunal.

Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic are charged with 26 counts of crimes against humanity, violations of the laws or customs of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention.

The indictments include charges of responsibility for murder, rape and deportation of Bosnian Muslims in 1992-93.